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WiteWulf wrote:As much of a fan as I was of Cheers, she'll always be Saavik to me
And as much as I was a fan of Saavik, she’d gone full Trump in recent years.
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Ah, wasn't aware of that.
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Damn. Jet Black. Still, 84, and he'd been ill for a while.

Also, it's an excuse to post this.

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Just seen the news about Teddy. So sorry to hear this, guys. Claire and I are sending all the hugs

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I just heard it too. Sorry.
I'm sure he had a happy life though and he went without suffering. That's the most important.
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Terry Hall of The Specials and Fun Boy Three. :flower:
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Yeah, really saddened by this. I have a light family connection to The Specials (my uncle Dave was one of their original managers), and they've been a constant throughout my life.
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Terry Hall, wow, what a loss. This is not the news I wanted to hear today :(
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Shit, Archer Maclean passed away 24th Dec 2022 at just 60 :cry:

Dropzone, IK and IK+ were big parts of my childhood and still stand up today as great titles to have on the retro cab.
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Same here bud :(
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Following the sad news of the passing of Archer Maclean, here’s the video of the Archer-restored Tempest cabinet to Yak:



Thread: http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=21131
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According to his brother Archer passed on the 17th after a long battle with cancer :( only just been announced now.
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Whiteball wrote:Shit, Archer Maclean passed away 24th Dec 2022 at just 60 :cry:

Dropzone, IK and IK+ were big parts of my childhood and still stand up today as great titles to have on the retro cab.
Came to say much the same thing. Those three games in particular were in heavy rotation on my C64 BITD, and I think Dropzone might have been the second or third C64 game I ever bought. Just beyond superb. Such sad news, RIP... :flower:
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Sad news... His games will live forever! Enjoyed everything he did and shame he passed away so young. :( :flower: RIP

Think it's time to dig out an Atari emulator and play some Dropzone.
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I never really knew his work other than the titles - they tended to be on formats I never owned - but I recall the article Edge did on restoring classic arcade games, in which he featured pretty heavily. It was the first insight into the issues of keeping something going which at the time of publication didn't seem that long ago (and still doesn't... ).
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